The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-01-27
The Interstate Dill.

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the provisions of the act to any common
carrier engaged in the transportation of
passengers wholly by railroad, or partly
by railroad and partly by water, when
both are used under common control,
management or arrangement, through
more than one State Or Territory, or from
any place in the United States to an ad-
jacent foreign country. It defines "rail-
road" to include all bridges and ferries
used or operated by any railroad.
All charges made for any service ren.
dered in the transportation of passengers
or property shall be reasonable and just,
and every unjust and unreasonable charge
for such service is prohibited and de-
clared to be unlawful.
Section two makes it unlawful for any
common carrier, subject to the provisions
of this act, to charge, demand, collect or
receive directly or Indirectly from any
person or persons greater or less COM
pensation for any service rendered in the
transportation Of passengers or property
than it charges, demands, collects or re-
ceives from any other person or persons
for doing for him or them like and con-
temporaneous service in the transporta.
ton of like kiud of traffic under sub.
stantially similar circumstances and con.
ditions.
Section three makes it unlawful for
any common carrier, subject to the pro-
visions of this act, to make or give any
undue or unreasonable preference or ad.
vantage to any particular person, COM
pany, firm, corporation or locality, or
any particular description of traffic.
Every common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall, according to
their respective powers, afford all reason.
able, proper and equal facilities for the
interchange Of traffic between their re-
spective lines, and for the receiving, for.
warding and delivering of passengers
and property to and from their separate
line and those connecting Herewith, and
shall not discriminate in their rates and
charges between such connecting lines
Sections four and FIVE (long and short
haul and pooling sections) are as follows !:
Section Four-That it shall be unIaw.
full for any common carrier subject 10 the
provisions of this act to charge or receive
any greater compensation in the aggre-
gate for the transportation Of passengers
or Of like kind of property under sub
staniially similar circumstances and con.
ditions, for shorter than for longer
distance over the same line in the same
direction, the shorter being included
within larger distances but this shall
not be construed as authorizing any COM
mon carrier, within the term of this act,
to charge and receive as great compen-
sation for shorter ss for a longer dis.
tance: Provided, however, that upon
application to the commission appointed
under the provisions of this act such
common carrier may, in special cases
after investigation by The commission, be
authorized to charge less for a longer
than for shorter distance for the trans.
portation of passengers or property, and
the commission may, from time to time,
prescribe the extent to which such desig.
mated common carrier may BIZ relieved
from the operation of this section of this
act.
Section Fiye-That it shall he unlaw.
full for any common carrier, subject to
the provisions of this act, to enter into
any contract, agreement or combination
with any other common carrier, or car.
riers, for the pooling of freights of differ.
ent and competing railroads, or to divide
between them the aggregate or net pro-
ceeds Of The earnings of such railroads
or any portion thereof, and in any case
Of an agreement for the pooling of
freights as aforesaid, each day of its con.
tipuauce shall be deemed separate
offence.
Section six requires that after ninety
days from the passage of this act every
common carrier, subject to its provisions,
shall have printed and keep for public
inspection schedules showing its rates,
fares and charges, and in addition to re-
quiring the railroads to give publicity at
all of the depots cn their several lines,
it gives authority to the Commission,
where it is proper and necessary, to re.
quire them to give publicity to their
rate, Ia other places beyond the lines Of
their several railroads. 1t also provides
that rates, fares and charges shall not be
raised except after ten days of public
notice, but that they may be reduced
without previous public notice; the
notice, however, shall be simultaneous
with the reduction itself.
Section seven makes it unlawful for
any common carrier to enter into any
combination or agreement 10 prevent the
carriage of freights from being continu.
Gus from the place Of shipment to the
place of destination.
Section eight declares that any com.
mon carrier, violating the provisions Of
the act, shall be liable to the person or
persons injured thereby, for the full
amount of damages sustained in conse-
quence Of any such violation, together
with reasonable counsel or attorneys fee.
The ninth section provides that per.
sons claiming to have been damaged by
the action of common carriers, may pro-
ceed for the recovery of their damages
either in the courts of the United States
or before the Commission herein provi-
ded for, but not before both tribunals.
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